Tomás Encarnacion
Senior Advisor, Decennial Communications and Stakeholder Relations
Tomás Encarnacion is a senior advisor in Decennial Communications and Stakeholder Relations. Most recently, he served as senior advisor for strategy, planning and special projects in the Office of the Director and in the Decennial Census Management Division, where he was the 2020 Census advisor to the U.S. Virgin Islands on St. Croix.
Tomás began his federal career in 2006 in the Philadelphia Regional Office, where he supervised American Community Survey (ACS) data collection operations across Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and two counties in West Virginia. He then joined headquarters to work in the American Community Survey Office (ACSO) Group Quarters Branch.
In 2010, Tomás transitioned to the Demographic Surveys Division’s Housing Surveys Branch as the section chief, overseeing data collection operations for the National Ambulatory Medical Care and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care surveys. Two years later, he returned to ACSO to head ACS data collection operations, including internet self-response and telephone nonresponse follow-up operations. In 2014, he joined the Customer Liaison and Marketing Services Office as chief of the Data Dissemination and Training Branch, managing a nationwide staff of more than 45 communication, data dissemination, and training experts.
Before coming to the Census Bureau, Tomás held roles in the private and nonprofit sectors, Washington, D.C., government, and higher education institutions. He also volunteered in overseas programs focused on human development, economic inequality, and social transformation.
Tomás holds a doctorate in sociology with a concentration in race, gender, and social stratification, and master's and bachelor's degrees in sociology from Howard University. He also earned a master’s certificate in project management from George Washington University and received a Bronze Medal Award for superior federal service.